TY - JOUR
T1 - Chest pain, panic disorder and coronary artery disease
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Soares-Filho, Gastão L.F.
AU - Arias-Carrión, Oscar
AU - Santulli, Gaetano
AU - Silva, Adriana C.
AU - Machado, Sergio
AU - Valença, Alexandre M.
AU - Nardi, Antonio E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Bentham Science Publishers.
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Chest pain may be due benign diseases but often suggests an association with coronary artery disease, which justifies a quick search for medical care. However, some people have anxiety disorder with symptoms that resemble clearly an acute coronary syndrome. More specifically, during a panic attack an abrupt feeling of fear accompanied by symptoms such as breathlessness, palpitations and chest pain, makes patients believe they have a heart attack and confuse physicians about the diagnosis. The association between panic disorder and coronary artery disease has been extensively studied in recent years and, although some studies have shown anxiety disorders coexisting or increasing the risk of heart disease, one causal hypothesis is still missing. The aim of this systematic review is to present the various ways in which the scientific community has been investigating the relation between chest pain, panic disorder and coronary artery disease.
AB - Chest pain may be due benign diseases but often suggests an association with coronary artery disease, which justifies a quick search for medical care. However, some people have anxiety disorder with symptoms that resemble clearly an acute coronary syndrome. More specifically, during a panic attack an abrupt feeling of fear accompanied by symptoms such as breathlessness, palpitations and chest pain, makes patients believe they have a heart attack and confuse physicians about the diagnosis. The association between panic disorder and coronary artery disease has been extensively studied in recent years and, although some studies have shown anxiety disorders coexisting or increasing the risk of heart disease, one causal hypothesis is still missing. The aim of this systematic review is to present the various ways in which the scientific community has been investigating the relation between chest pain, panic disorder and coronary artery disease.
KW - Chest pain
KW - Coronary artery disease
KW - Myocardial ischemia
KW - Myocardial perfusion
KW - Panic anxiety
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U2 - 10.2174/1871527313666140612141500
DO - 10.2174/1871527313666140612141500
M3 - Article
C2 - 24923348
AN - SCOPUS:84926326921
SN - 1871-5273
VL - 13
SP - 992
EP - 1001
JO - CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets
JF - CNS and Neurological Disorders - Drug Targets
IS - 6
ER -